As the never ending Labour leadership contest lurches from absurdity to absurdity, Andy Burnham is trying to out do Corbyn in taking Labour even further back in time than the early 80's.

Today Burnham will make a speech entitled "Recapturing The Spirit of '45", in a bid to recapture the spirit of Clement Attlee’s Government, and slam
the modern Labour Party for being “too frightened by its own shadow”.

Friday, 24 July 2015

As per the Evening Times, it appears that some Glaswegian councillors have a wee bit of reluctance paying their council tax bills:

"More than a third of Glasgow’s councillors have been rapped for failing to pay council tax, new figures show.
Over the past two years, 27 councillors have been sent reminder notices advising that they had fallen behind with payments.
The figures, obtained by Freedom of Information laws, show that 10
councillors had to be reminded to pay their council tax in 2013-2014 and
11 failed to make payments the following year.
So far this year – in four months – six councillors out of 75 have been sent reminder notices by the local authority."

This does not bode well for the finances of a country that wishes to become independent and manage its own affairs without subsidy from England.